Calcutta (inhabited place)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 383 Collections and/or Records:
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Views in Tiretta Bazaar Street, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/498
Scope and Contents
Calcutta.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Views in Tiretta Bazaar Street, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/499
Scope and Contents
Calcutta.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Views in Tiretta Bazaar Street, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/500
Scope and Contents
Calcutta.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[W. Leslie & Co., ?Chowringhee Road], 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022BB/13
Scope and Contents
225x264mm. Showing the frontage of the premises of W. Leslie & Co, a three storeyed building dated 1898 on the facade. The exact location of this shop has not been identified, and Macmillan, Playne and Thacker give conflicting information. Macmillan in 1928 states that Leslie & Co. moved into new premises at 19 Chowringhee Road in 1912: his description of these buildings, however, does not match either this photograph or Y3022BB/12. Playne gives the firm's location as nos. 3 and 5,...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Washing clothes for Calcutta, 1907-12 - 1908-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 3/470
Scope and Contents
Half-plate. Large washing and drying ground near Khalighat.
Dates:
1907-12 - 1908-01
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[West End Watch Company premises, 12 Dalhousie Square], 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/38
Scope and Contents
287x225mm. View of the West End Watch Company premises in the N.E. corner of Dalhousie Square. A four storey building with a central pediment supported on Corinthian pilasters, the shop has a cast-iron verandah running along the Dalhousie Square frontage, in front of which horse-drawn cabs and motor cars are parked. No details of the firm's history have been traced. To the right are the offices of the Yost Typewriter Company and, in the neighbouring building, the Eastern Bengal Railway...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Writers' Buildings and Holwell Monument, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/34
Scope and Contents
205x135mm. View looking E. along the N. side of Dalhousie Square, with the Holwell Monument in the foreground at the junction with Clive Street, and the Writers' Buildings (by this time the Bengal Secretariat) stretching along the whole of the N side of the square. The monument, erected by a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, John Zephaniah Holwell, over the mass grave of those who died, was in the form of an obelisk mounted on an octagonal pedestal on which the names of those who died...
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Writers' Buildings, looking W, 1918
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022AA/35
Scope and Contents
290x233mm. View from the E. end of the N. side of Dalhousie Square looking along the length of the S. facade of the Bengal Secretariat. Originally constructed in 1780 to accommodate junior East India Company servants on their arrival in India, the building was probably designed by Thomas Lyon and presented a long, plain stuccoed facade to Tank Square. In later years the apartments were used by private individuals and commercials firms, and in 1878-82 the buildings were entirely reconstructed...
Dates:
1918
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).